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Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (Hardcover, New)
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Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (Hardcover, New)
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Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of
pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions
of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective
on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows
that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because
pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a
skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's life
as a whole, bringing about goodness in all areas of one's life, as
a skill brings about order in its materials. The 'materials' of the
skill of living are, in the first instance, not things like money
or health, but one's attitudes, emotions, and desires where things
like money and health are concerned. Plato recognizes that these
'materials' of the psyche are inchoate, ethically speaking, and in
need of direction from wisdom. Among them is pleasure, which Plato
treats not as a sensation but as an attitude with which one
ascribes value to its object. However, Plato also views pleasure,
once shaped and directed by wisdom, as a crucial part of a virtuous
character as a whole. Consequently, Plato rejects all forms of
hedonism, which allows happiness to be determined by a part of the
psyche that does not direct one's life but is among the materials
to be directed. At the same time, Plato is also able to hold both
that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and that pleasure is
necessary for happiness, not as an addition to one's virtue, but as
a constituent of one's whole virtuous character itself. Plato
therefore offers an illuminating role for pleasure in ethics and
psychology, one to which we may be unaccustomed: pleasure emerges
not as a sensation or even a mode of activity, but as an attitude -
one of the ways in which we construe our world - and as such, a
central part of every character.
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